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Whatever suites .................... your car ...your choice ................enjoy !

I feel the pain as well ................I have repaired my Sc430 mirrors which in essence are the same . I think you got off to a bad start because someone had done a bodge before you . There is a run through on you tube to follow . At this stage I think you are probably better getting another unit . The small motors can be repaired as well , but you need to be deft to take them apart and clean the commutator and retention the wiper brushes.

and on and on and on!!!!!!! ................................. take a little Hubris pill and keep shuffling the money ......................its all you can do !!!!!

Linas will be along to tell you that was the wrong choice !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

HE IS GOING KUMHO ................ for the rear which are worn to limits .................................. and............... You are wrong ...I have had more tyres in my 50+ years of motoring than you have had hot dinners ,.......so there ...................... my opinion and experience trumps you on this one .....................only saying ......... That is just not true.................where is the evidence ?its subjective !

Michelin are one ofthe most comfortable tyres on the market . They have very supple walls..............so there Linas ...we disagree again ! ...........but hey he is going Kumho 😊😊😊😊 I JUST KNEW YOU WOULD HAVE AN ANGLE !!!!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂

Kumho are good tyres .and relatively cheap . Go with these again is my recommendation . If you were going all 4 ...I am a big Michelin fan

IS250 SE-L 2006 comes with 225/40/R18 front and 255/40/R18 rear and rides perfectly smoothly as such ................................

He did , but what you have to take into consideration that a lot of UK driving( especially north ) is done in sub 8 deg temperatures , so in effect the summer tyre rubber begins to imitate plastic and does not do as good a job as any tyre made for all season /winter ie sub 7 deg . So its really a case of the rubber cocktail they use. to keep supple belo7 deg C ......... then the thread pattern and sipes come into play for water dissipation .

https://alltyretests.com/michelin-crossclimate-plus/ I think you can take a lot of tyre tests with a pinch of salt ..................no pun intended !.......... you change one of the parameters of test by a very small amount and everything changes . Its the old engineering problem of the infinitely variable , variables. You can make anything look good or bad depending what your agenda is. all season are a compromise as are all tyre related issues . But if you encounter conditions below 7 deg C its a no brainer to use them or winter tyres in winter. .

I dont know where that comes from , but the tyres are brilliant in the wet , dry , and as I found out this year superb in snow

Lovely woman and great driver !!!!!!!!

Good man Graham !!!!! something Fishy about that journey !

Transmission oil ........................have you thought about that lately ?🤭

Ita all good john ................. its paddies day !!

I knew a guy in the early 00 , who had an Honda with the B16A2 DOHC VTEC engine who had 340,000 miles on the clock . He changed the oilm every 5k and she was sweet as a nut . I also had a friend in the motor trade who had to change the timing chain on a perticular merc line of engines at 100k or they would ruin the engine ................ Its all down to good design and then just regular oil changes .

I would say John , that modern engines will last that long with proper maintenance , and even without in some cases . But if you feel its good , then go for it !!!.

My advice would be to fill your car with petrol ........................ change your engine oil and filter with the OEM spec products at the recommended intervals for your conditions and let the designers do the other thinking as to the engine .......................

Why was I not invited to this thread???

GROUNDHOG DAY ???? or did Windows Reboot ???😁

Yes enjoy The KIa . THEY are a sound make . There is also a big bonus to owning one ?/...........................................................Linas doesnt ................so hes unlikely to pop up there LOL

The 2 youtube videos I posted and this is all that is needed and are a reasonable representation of what is required . , Fays for the cycle and the second one for the sump removall filter but I doubt if anyone on here bothered to watch them and understand the procedure and what the end game is, .

Tr Fill.pdf

And I hope you cycled the fluid with the car running at the correct temperature dictated by your hooked up Techstream monitor as you cycled the gears , then drained again , measured and filled with the same amount and then run the car again on stands and cycled through the gears and then drained again . Finally when the fluid remains red you can on the last cycle remove the level stack pipe plug at between 39-49 deg c and allow the level to settle to a drip and refit plug . Then you have done it correctly . If you miss out any of this .... for gods sake dont bother whether you are a mechanic or not .

Let me be clear as one of the few here who as actually done the work and had the sump off and strainer replaced on a number of occasions . This filter is actually a large area gauze strainer element in a plastic case . It is called a filter but is akin to a felt filter . It will sieve larger particles from entering the suction pump in the transmission . The idea of the cycling of fluid 3 or four times is to allow the fluid in the torque converter to return to he sump through the valve body etc . Thus by a cycling effect running the car and going through the gears up on stands you can effectivelyreturn most of the contaminated fluid back to the sump and realistically leave mostly new red fluid in the sump which will be obvious on the next fluid cycle . The filter does not necessarily need replacing at 50 k as in my experience it was pretty clean and was no where near a max particle capacity . I woulsd say that the filter could be replaced at a much larger cycle period than the fluid cycle mileage , but if you choose to do it and the fluid cycle period then fair enough . That is the reality of the job . Its up to everyone to listen to the above or not as the case may be.